[Bug 1255747] Re: lubuntu 13.10 installation (encrypted home, no swap) fails

[Marcus Tomlinson]

I'm so sorry that your issue has gone unnoticed for this long :( The
backlog we've accrued here is truly unfortunate. We would really like to
see the situation improve, but with over 2000 open bugs, manually
testing each is honestly almost impossible. The aim today was to ping
these old bugs and allow anyone still effected to respond and put their
bug onto the radar again.

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Title:
  lubuntu 13.10 installation (encrypted home, no swap) fails

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  steps to reproduce:
  0) prerequisites (probably do not matter?): pre-format disk to 3 partitions: boot (~200mb, ext2), system (~20gb, ext4), home (~80gb, ext4); all partitions empty and unused.
  1) start lubuntu 13.10 (64bit) installation.
  2) choose encrypted home 'who are you' user-setup dialogue.
  3) click 'continue'.
  4) notification window pops up (title 'ubi-usersetp crashed'): ubi-usersetup failed with exit code 1. further information may be found in /var/log/syslog. do you want to try running this step again before continuing? if you do not, your intallation may fail entirely or may be broken.
  5) chosing 'try again' would fail again
  6) chosing 'continue anyway' would lead to a stuck installation process

  Expected behaviour:
  installation continues and succeeds

  /var/log/syslog reads:
  WARNING: there were no usable swap devices to be encrypted.  exiting.
  /usr/share/ubiquity/user-setup-encrypted-swap: 79 /usr/share/ubiquity/user-setup-encrypted-swap: cannot open /etc/crypttab: no such file
  cp: cannot stat '/etc/crypttab'
  : No such file or directory

  ubiquity version present: 2.15.26

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.15.26
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
  Date: Wed Nov 27 23:57:24 2013
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=de
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=linux
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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